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[QUOTE]Originally posted by typeZeiss: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [qb] what you should have said in 2011 was that Saif Gaddafi said that Libya was half black But instead you left out his name and said that "Libya is 50% black" making it sound as if that was hard statistical data Perhaps the largest group of indigenous black African inclusive of parts of Libya are the Tubu ( aka Toubou).They live mainly in northern Chad, but also in southern Libya, northeastern Niger and northwestern Sudan and are roughly estimated to be 350,000 There are also the Toureg estimated to be 10,000 - 17,000 and it is hard to said what portion of them is "black". The idea that Libya is 50% indigenous black is ridiculous. All one needs to do is look at the ethnic groups and they are under half a million in an overall population of 6.5 million ______________________________________ http://www.modernghana.com/news/318974/1/black-africans-in-libya-cry-out-for-help.html modern ghana news [i]Out of a population of about seven million people in Libya, about one million are believed to be from sub-Saharan African countries. There are no concrete figures. Reports claimed that about three quarters of these Africans are sort of on a waiting list to try by any means to cross to Europe.[/i] ^^^ So most blacks in the country are migrant workers. If you add this to the indigenous and the descendants of Ottoman slaves who are earlier Sudanese or other SSA you get a figure well under 50% Must we not question this just because we like the sound of it ? My guess is that Saif Gaddafi was greatly exaggerating the size of the black population in Libya for politcial reasons in an interview. The Gaddafis are masters of rhetoric and under duress from being overthrown by the rebels/NATO So Libya was 50% black all these deacdes and now only when Gaddafi is overthrown does this "fact" come out ?? _________________________________________ http://www.minorityrights.org/4171/libya/libya-overview.html Main minority groups: Berber (Amazigh) est. 236,000 to 590,000 (4-10%), Tuareg est. 17,000 (0.3%), foreigners, 600,000 documented (10%) and 1.1-1.2 million undocumented (18-20%) [Note: Reliable statistics for Libya are unavailable. Estimates for the numbers of Berber speakers vary between four and ten per cent. The number of Tuareg is from the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in 2009. The numbers for foreigners are Libyan government figures cited by Human Rights Watch (HWR) in 2006.] Demographic data for Libya is scarce, but around 90 per cent of the population belongs to the Arabic-speaking majority of mixed Arab–Berber ancestry. The Sunni branch of Islam is the official and nationally dominant political, cultural and legal force. Berbers, who retain the Berber language and customs, are the largest non-Arab minority. Libyan Berbers call themselves Amazigh (plural: Imazighen) and are one of the indigenous populations of North Africa. They are made of up of different ethnic groups, including nomadic Tuareg. Other minorities include the Arabic-speakers of West African ancestry, who inhabit the southern oases, and the Berber-related Tuareg and Tebu (Toubou), who live in the south of the country. - See more at: http://www.minorityrights.org/4171/libya/libya-overview.html#sthash.9f473PQT.dpuf _____________________________ http://lib.ohchr.org/HRBodies/UPR/Documents/Session9/LY/A_HRC_WG.6_9_LBY_3_Libya.pdf Summary prepared by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in accordance with paragraph 15 (c) of the annex to Human rights Council resolution 5/1: Libyan Arab Jamahiriya [URL=http://www.ephotobay.com/share/picture-34-33.html] [IMG]http://www.ephotobay.com/image/picture-34-33.png[/IMG][/URL] [/qb][/QUOTE]What a absolutely silly mental exercise you have engaged in. 1. Tebou are not the only blacks there. There are so called black berbers there, tawargha, and many other groups. Your attempt to relegate blackness to one group, which you have googled, is beyond inept. Secondly, how much more official do you want statistics than from a GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL? Also, there is a US government official who stated the SAME statistics and she has spent time there, unlike you. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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